Sat 9 Aug, 2-5pm
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In this performance, Joshua Woolford expands Dancing with the devil / a symphony of organs scattered over the floor, which was originally performed for New Contemporaries at Camden Arts Centre in 2024. The artist will be joined by DJ and space maker Sippin’ T; sonic and visual artist Lie Ning; and fashion and installation designer Yodea Marquel for a three-hour durational performance exploring the potential for collective healing and transformation. Throughout the performance, simple interactions with external, natural and technological ‘organs’ are amplified through repetition, audio loops and electronic processing. In these tangled and fractured moments, Woolford tries to imagine a new liberation for those that are marginalised and oppressed in these unsettling global times.
This is a durational performance over three hours, and audiences are welcome to drop in and out of the performance.
Joshua Woolford is a transdisciplinary artist working across performance, sound, video, and installation. Woolford’s work is grounded in cultural research and their personal experiences of being a member of the queer Black Afro-Caribbean diaspora living in England. Through their practice, Woolford acknowledges and confronts experiences of violence, aggression, and misalignment through installation, sound, language and their body. They embrace reflection, transition and movement as powerful and disruptive states which provoke critical dialogues.
Woolford graduated with an MA from the Royal College of Art (Contemporary Art Practice) and Cum Laude from the Design Academy Eindhoven (Media and Culture). They were the 2023-24 Interpretation Artist in Residence at Tate and a New Contemporaries 2023 Artist. In 2024 they were the recipient of an Arts Council DYCP grant, and the a-n Artists Bursary. Notable exhibitions include live performances at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, and exhibitions and performances across London, such as HOME by Ronan Mckenzie, Somerset House; Black Cultural Archives; V&A; Gucci flagship store; Camden Art Centre; and Tate Britain.
Woolford lectures at London College of Communication and the Royal College of Art in the School of Architecture.
